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HARDCORE. VON DRAKUS from Gießen, Germany deliver with "the black gate" their newest release. This is once more dark and bleak hardcore which can be compared as a mix of newer INTEGRITY with vocals that reminiscent a bit of germans HAMMERHEAD. Sometimes fast, then again with mosh-parts... this is powerful and very angry hardcore. Black vinyl is limited to 308 copiwes and includes a digital download card.

SKA-PUNK-ROCK. "band geek mafia" is a fan favorite from VOODOO GLOW SKULLS. Originally released in 1998. This album is soon to be 20 years old and still as fun and irreverent as the day it was released. Vinyl includes a digital download card.

SKA-PUNK-ROCK. "firme" is the biggest selling album from ska-punk rockers VOODOO GLOW SKULLS. "firme" - the English version - was originally released in 1995 and one year later, the album was released in Spanish. This special 21st-anniversary edition DoLP set contains both the English and Spanish versions together in one package.

SKA-PUNK-ROCK. VOODOO GLOW SKULLS concocted their infectious mixture of punk, ska, and Latino music in 1988 and proceed to distill it into a poisonous brew of propulsive rock 'n' roll that has driven audiences wild around the globe. 2002's "steady as she goes" combined guttural, rapid-fire vocals, a tough, metallic guitar attack, a funhouse horn section, and muscular drumming that borders on polka for the insane.

HARDCORE. Indecision Records has once again laid their claim to a hardcore supergroup. Featured are John Pettibone (UNDERTOW, HIMSA), Chris Williams (CHAMPION), Aram Arslanian (CHAMPION, BETRAYED), Ryan Murphy (UNDERTOW, TEN YARD FIGHT, ENSIGN), and Rob Moran (UNBROKEN, OVER MY DEAD BODY and SOME GIRLS). This debut is made up of 4 tracks of fast, positive hardcore proving that the passion for hardcore is still alive within these individuals.

HARDCORE. VREDESMORD from Sweden consists of (ex-) members of HERÄTYS, HELVETE and INSTITUTION. So you can be sure you won't be disappointed - but VREDESMORD are also a little different. They are more diversified spanning from total up-tempo mangel raw-punk to mid-tempo noise stompers and including a metal-riff here and there.

PUNK-ROCK. Orange County's most celebrated new band of 2019 makes their Hostage Records debut with this 10-song ripper. If THE CRAMPS, BLACK FLAG, and THE STOOGES birthed a child, it would scream like this.

HARDCORE-PUNK. "i still feel cold" is the 2nd full-length release from VULTURES UNITED, a band from California. After years of touring and gaining a steady following in the US and the UK, the band decided to hit the refresh button, releasing a new intricate double album. The 2-part offering is both versatile and hard hitting tapping into elements of various moods, and it serves an engrossing spectacle from beginning to end. Vinyl includes a digital download card.

PROGRESSIVE-HARDCORE/METAL. Finally pressed onto vinyl and released for the masses is this 2008 debut from VYGR. It includes 6 tracks at all (1 extra track recorded in spring of 2011) and deliveres the heavy, droning ISIS and OLD MAN GLOOM-inspired sound as their 2011 full-length "hypersleep".

HARDCORE. "try again. fail again..." is a half-hour of darkly tinged hardcore with some great ferocity displayed in each of the 9 tracks featured here. Not injected with the blazing sludge found in PERTH EXPRESS and yet not being as strictly hardcore as GLASSES, VYST have found a comfortable middle ground with a very minor blackened-crusty influence without completely falling into the ever-popular splinter genre of dark hardcore - and it works very well. Actually they probably have more in common with their brothers in THROWERS than the other two groups which is more on the dark dissonant side of the sound.

POP-PUNK-ROCK. Who would have thought that a group of southern boys, now living in Portland, Oregon, would uncover the future of doo-wop boogie pop, lassoing the soul of 1950 and the hooks of 1970 and dragging those years through the dregs of punk into 2011? "duds" is the 1st full-length by W.H. WALKER, 10 pop filled anthems featuring a cover of BOBBY DARIN's "dream lover"! Get squeeky clean and buy this record now!

HARDCORE. Final release from San Diego's ferocious hardcore stalwartsWACO FUCK. Distilling the TOTALITÄR and NAPALM DEATH-obsessed ultracore of their earlier output into a more powerful, midpaced assault, "eliminate culture" weaves deftly through Scandinavian-derived thrashings, violent dirges, infectious, RUDIMENTARY PENI-style riffing and the hard-hitting So-Cal traditions of BATTALION OF SAINTS and the like. If you have an ear for forward-thinking, well-played hardcore bound by neither cliche nor pretension, "eliminate culture" is for you. Vinyl includes a digital download card.

HARDCORE. WACO FUCK’s debut full-length "paranoia is total awareness" shows the band moving their malicious grinding power-violence assault in a decidedly more midpaced hardcore direction while retaining the terse urgency of their previous 7"s '80s hardcore such as BATTALION OF SAINTS, MDC and DISCHARGE blends with '90s favorites like FILTH and STATE OF FEAR while hard as nails INFEST riffage and the occasional blast thrown in for good measure gives the album an undeniable momentum. As the title suggests, an obsession with conspiracy theories and contempt for the military industrial complex sets a powerful tone for the album. The CD version features bonus tracks from their 2 out-of-print 7"s.

SXE-HARDCORE. WAIT IN VAIN has emerged in the northwest as one of the most dynamic bands in the hardcore scene today. Fronted by Timm McIntosh, formerly of TRIAL and CHAMPION, WAIT IN VAIN has a voice that has been a part of the uprising, continuation and return of Seattle straight-edge hardcore. Lyrically, the band unleashes an intelligent onslaught of messages covering many social and political issues with an emphasis on self-reliance and a need for action toward an uncaring world.